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AI 2027: The Future We Choose: The Truth About Artificial Intelligence, AGI, and the AI Singularity—From the Dark Scenarios to the Breakthroughs That Could Save Humanity

by Himanshoo Jaiswal ...

AI 2027: The Future We Choose is a powerful, future-focused AI book that explores the next phase of artificial intelligence and its impact on society, business, and human survival. Perfect for beginners, futurists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, this essential guide explains AI in education, healthcare, governance, ethics, and generative AI technologies in simple, engaging language.Author ... Read more

$3.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

AI 2027: The Future We Choose is a powerful, future-focused AI book that explores the next phase of artificial intelligence and its impact on society, business, and human survival. Perfect for beginners, futurists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, this essential guide explains AI in education, healthcare, governance, ethics, and generative AI technologies in simple, engaging language.Author
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Google Gemini For Dummies

by Bonaventura Di Bello ...

Tap into the power of AI right where you already workWith AI tools popping up everywhere, finding the right one for your workflow can be a little intimidating. Google Gemini For Dummies makes it easy by showing you how to use AI directly from the apps you already rely on every day. Discover how to craft effective prompts, summarize long email threads, generate presentation content, and draft ideas ... Read more

$18.00 USD

Tap into the power of AI right where you already workWith AI tools popping up everywhere, finding the right one for your workflow can be a little intimidating. Google Gemini For Dummies makes it easy by showing you how to use AI directly from the apps you already rely on every day. Discover how to craft effective prompts, summarize long email threads, generate presentation content, and draft ideas
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Python: Data Analytics and Visualization

by Phuong Vo.T.H, Martin Czygan, Ashish Kumar, Kirthi Raman ...

Understand, evaluate, and visualize dataAbout This BookLearn basic steps of data analysis and how to use Python and its packagesA step-by-step guide to predictive modeling including tips, tricks, and best practicesEffectively visualize a broad set of analyzed data and generate effective resultsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python Developers who are keen to get into data analysis and wish to ... Read more

$71.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Understand, evaluate, and visualize dataAbout This BookLearn basic steps of data analysis and how to use Python and its packagesA step-by-step guide to predictive modeling including tips, tricks, and best practicesEffectively visualize a broad set of analyzed data and generate effective resultsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python Developers who are keen to get into data analysis and wish to
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Hands-On SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services

Design and query tabular and multi-dimensional models using Microsoft's SQL Server Analysis Services

by Steven Hughes ...

Get up to speed with the new features added to Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services and create models to support your businessKey FeaturesExplore tips and tricks to design, develop, and optimize end-to-end data analytics solutions using Microsoft's technologiesLearn tabular modeling and multi-dimensional cube design development using real-world examplesImplement Analysis Services to help ... Read more

$36.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get up to speed with the new features added to Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services and create models to support your businessKey FeaturesExplore tips and tricks to design, develop, and optimize end-to-end data analytics solutions using Microsoft's technologiesLearn tabular modeling and multi-dimensional cube design development using real-world examplesImplement Analysis Services to help
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AI for Public Relations

A How-To Guide for Implementation and Management

Edited by Stephen Waddington, Ben Verinder ...

Learn how to apply AI effectively, ethically and at scale throughout PR processes and strategies.AI for Public Relations is a practical guide for mid-career PR managers and agency professionals who want to build credibility and integrate AI tools into everyday practice. As AI reshapes content creation, planning, measurement and reputation management, this book shows how to apply proven principles ... Read more

$35.09 USD

Learn how to apply AI effectively, ethically and at scale throughout PR processes and strategies.AI for Public Relations is a practical guide for mid-career PR managers and agency professionals who want to build credibility and integrate AI tools into everyday practice. As AI reshapes content creation, planning, measurement and reputation management, this book shows how to apply proven principles
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Curso de Introducción a la Administración de Bases de Datos

by Miguel Ángel Benítez, Ángel Arias ...

El buen uso de las bases de datos es fundamental para las buenas prácticas en la programación actual. Una base de datos optimizada, con sus backups automatizados, con el uso de triggers, etc... es lo que dará finalmente agilidad al desarrollador de aplicaciones con bases de datos y al rendimiento de las propias aplicaciones que trabajan con bases de datos.Debido al aumento exponencial de las ... Read more

$6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

El buen uso de las bases de datos es fundamental para las buenas prácticas en la programación actual. Una base de datos optimizada, con sus backups automatizados, con el uso de triggers, etc... es lo que dará finalmente agilidad al desarrollador de aplicaciones con bases de datos y al rendimiento de las propias aplicaciones que trabajan con bases de datos.Debido al aumento exponencial de las
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The BPMN Graphic Handbook

by Esteban Herrera ...

- Do you want to know the purpose of all the diagrams and elements of BPMN in an easy way?- Do you want a quick reference to the most useful parts of BPMN?- Are you tired of reading books full of boring text (and in small font)?The BPMN Graphic Handbook is the solution to these problems.This book describes all the major BPMN diagram types, what they're used for, and the basic notation involved in ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

- Do you want to know the purpose of all the diagrams and elements of BPMN in an easy way?- Do you want a quick reference to the most useful parts of BPMN?- Are you tired of reading books full of boring text (and in small font)?The BPMN Graphic Handbook is the solution to these problems.This book describes all the major BPMN diagram types, what they're used for, and the basic notation involved in
... Read more
Practical Lakehouse Architecture

Designing and Implementing Modern Data Platforms at Scale

by Gaurav Ashok Thalpati ...

This concise yet comprehensive guide explains how to adopt a data lakehouse architecture to implement modern data platforms. It reviews the design considerations, challenges, and best practices for implementing a lakehouse and provides key insights into the ways that using a lakehouse can impact your data platform, from managing structured and unstructured data and supporting BI and AI/ML use ... Read more

$43.19 USD

This concise yet comprehensive guide explains how to adopt a data lakehouse architecture to implement modern data platforms. It reviews the design considerations, challenges, and best practices for implementing a lakehouse and provides key insights into the ways that using a lakehouse can impact your data platform, from managing structured and unstructured data and supporting BI and AI/ML use
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Data Modeling with Tableau

A practical guide to building data models using Tableau Prep and Tableau Desktop

by Kirk Munroe ...

Save time analyzing large volumes of data using best practices to extract, model, and create insights from your dataKey FeaturesMaster best practices in data modeling with Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau DesktopApply Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud to create and extend data modelsBuild organizational data models based on data and content governance best practicesBook DescriptionTableau is unlike ... Read more

$34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Save time analyzing large volumes of data using best practices to extract, model, and create insights from your dataKey FeaturesMaster best practices in data modeling with Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau DesktopApply Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud to create and extend data modelsBuild organizational data models based on data and content governance best practicesBook DescriptionTableau is unlike
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Regression Analysis with R

Design and develop statistical nodes to identify unique relationships within data at scale

by Giuseppe Ciaburro, Pierre Paquay, Manoj Kumar, Shaikh Salamatullah ...

Build effective regression models in R to extract valuable insights from real dataKey FeaturesImplement different regression analysis techniques to solve common problems in data science - from data exploration to dealing with missing valuesFrom Simple Linear Regression to Logistic Regression - this book covers all regression techniques and their implementation in RA complete guide to building ... Read more

$34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Build effective regression models in R to extract valuable insights from real dataKey FeaturesImplement different regression analysis techniques to solve common problems in data science - from data exploration to dealing with missing valuesFrom Simple Linear Regression to Logistic Regression - this book covers all regression techniques and their implementation in RA complete guide to building
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Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems

Designing for Performance and User Experience

by Avi Parush ...

Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems: Designing for Performance and User Experience provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the steps necessary to take the leap from research and requirements to product design. The text presents a proven strategy for transforming research into a conceptual model, discussing the iterative process that allows users to build the essential foundation for a ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems: Designing for Performance and User Experience provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the steps necessary to take the leap from research and requirements to product design. The text presents a proven strategy for transforming research into a conceptual model, discussing the iterative process that allows users to build the essential foundation for a
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Learning Responsive Web Design

A Beginner's Guide

by Clarissa Peterson ...

Deliver an optimal user experience to all devices—including tablets, smartphones, feature phones, laptops, and large screens—by learning the basics of responsive web design. In this hands-on guide, UX designer Clarissa Peterson explains how responsive web design works, and takes you through a responsive workflow from project kickoff to site launch.Ideal for anyone involved in the process of ... Read more

$23.09 USD

Deliver an optimal user experience to all devices—including tablets, smartphones, feature phones, laptops, and large screens—by learning the basics of responsive web design. In this hands-on guide, UX designer Clarissa Peterson explains how responsive web design works, and takes you through a responsive workflow from project kickoff to site launch.Ideal for anyone involved in the process of
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Web Mapping Illustrated

Using Open Source GIS Toolkits

by Tyler Mitchell ...

With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area.Developers who want to publish maps on the web ... Read more

$28.79 USD

With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area.Developers who want to publish maps on the web
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Writing for Developers

Blogs that get read

by Piotr Sarna, Cynthia Dunlop ...

Pragmatic methods for writing blogs, articles, and other technical pieces that stand out from the crowd!Do you want to connect with your community, share your state-of-the-art achievements, and help your peers benefit from your hard-fought lessons learned? Do you want to get the kind of attention that expands your career? Master the art of writing engineering blog posts and articles! This ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Pragmatic methods for writing blogs, articles, and other technical pieces that stand out from the crowd!Do you want to connect with your community, share your state-of-the-art achievements, and help your peers benefit from your hard-fought lessons learned? Do you want to get the kind of attention that expands your career? Master the art of writing engineering blog posts and articles! This
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Getting Started with Couchbase Server

Extreme Scalability at Your Fingertips

by MC Brown ...

Do you know what to do if your web application goes viral and usage suddenly explodes? This concise guide introduces you to Couchbase Server, an extremely fast NoSQL database that automatically distributes data across a cluster of commodity servers or virtual machines. You’ll learn hands-on how to build a Couchbase cluster without changing your application, and how to expand your database on the ... Read more

$13.09 USD

Do you know what to do if your web application goes viral and usage suddenly explodes? This concise guide introduces you to Couchbase Server, an extremely fast NoSQL database that automatically distributes data across a cluster of commodity servers or virtual machines. You’ll learn hands-on how to build a Couchbase cluster without changing your application, and how to expand your database on the
... Read more
Rapid Contextual Design

A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design

by Karen Holtzblatt, Jessamyn Burns Wendell, Shelley Wood ...

Series series Interactive Technologies
Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming? This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive form of Contextual Design. Rapid CD is a hands-on guide for anyone who needs practical guidance on how ... Read more

$51.29 USD

Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming? This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive form of Contextual Design. Rapid CD is a hands-on guide for anyone who needs practical guidance on how
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Building Recommendation Systems in Python and JAX

Hands-On Production Systems at Scale

by Bryan Bischof Ph.D, Hector Yee ...

Implementing and designing systems that make suggestions to users are among the most popular and essential machine learning applications available. Whether you want customers to find the most appealing items at your online store, videos to enrich and entertain them, or news they need to know, recommendation systems (RecSys) provide the way.In this practical book, authors Bryan Bischof and Hector ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Implementing and designing systems that make suggestions to users are among the most popular and essential machine learning applications available. Whether you want customers to find the most appealing items at your online store, videos to enrich and entertain them, or news they need to know, recommendation systems (RecSys) provide the way.In this practical book, authors Bryan Bischof and Hector
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Advanced Splunk

Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using Splunk

by Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav ...

Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using SplunkKey Features\[\*\] A practical and comprehensive guide to the advanced functions of Splunk,, including the new features of Splunk 6.3\[\*\] Develop and manage your own Splunk apps for greater insight from your machine data\[\*\] Full coverage of high-level Splunk techniques including advanced searches, manipulations, and ... Read more

$41.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using SplunkKey Features\[\*\] A practical and comprehensive guide to the advanced functions of Splunk,, including the new features of Splunk 6.3\[\*\] Develop and manage your own Splunk apps for greater insight from your machine data\[\*\] Full coverage of high-level Splunk techniques including advanced searches, manipulations, and
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Bayesian Networks in R

with Applications in Systems Biology

by Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Marco Scutari, Sophie Lèbre ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Bayesian Networks in R with Applications in Systems Biology is unique as it introduces the reader to the essential concepts in Bayesian network modeling and inference in conjunction with examples in the open-source statistical environment R. The level of sophistication is also gradually increased across the chapters with exercises and solutions for enhanced understanding for hands-on ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Bayesian Networks in R with Applications in Systems Biology is unique as it introduces the reader to the essential concepts in Bayesian network modeling and inference in conjunction with examples in the open-source statistical environment R. The level of sophistication is also gradually increased across the chapters with exercises and solutions for enhanced understanding for hands-on
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COBOL Language Fundamentals Quick Start

by Robert Wingate ...

This book will teach you the basic information and skills you need to develop applications with the COBOL programming language on IBM mainframe computers running z/OS. The instruction, examples and sample programs in this book are a fast track to becoming productive with COBOL as quickly as possible. The content of this book is easy to read and digest, well organized and focused on honing real job ... Read more

$5.99 USD

This book will teach you the basic information and skills you need to develop applications with the COBOL programming language on IBM mainframe computers running z/OS. The instruction, examples and sample programs in this book are a fast track to becoming productive with COBOL as quickly as possible. The content of this book is easy to read and digest, well organized and focused on honing real job
... Read more
Scaling CouchDB

Replication, Clustering, and Administration

by Bradley Holt ...

This practical guide offers a short course on scaling CouchDB to meet the capacity needs of your distributed application. Through a series of scenario-based examples, this book lets you explore several methods for creating a system that can accommodate growth and meet expected demand. In the process, you learn about several tools that can help you with replication, load balancing, clustering, and ... Read more

$8.69 USD

This practical guide offers a short course on scaling CouchDB to meet the capacity needs of your distributed application. Through a series of scenario-based examples, this book lets you explore several methods for creating a system that can accommodate growth and meet expected demand. In the process, you learn about several tools that can help you with replication, load balancing, clustering, and
... Read more
Python Data Analytics

Data Analysis and Science using pandas, matplotlib and the Python Programming Language

by Fabio Nelli ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Python Data Analytics will help you tackle the world of data acquisition and analysis using the power of the Python language. At the heart of this book lies the coverage of pandas, an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language.Author Fabio Nelli expertly shows the strength of the Python ... Read more

$44.99 USD

Python Data Analytics will help you tackle the world of data acquisition and analysis using the power of the Python language. At the heart of this book lies the coverage of pandas, an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language.Author Fabio Nelli expertly shows the strength of the Python
... Read more
Understanding Compression

Data Compression for Modern Developers

by Colt McAnlis, Aleks Haecky ...

If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile services market, you need a quick-loading app that won’t churn through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression algorithms work—in theory and practice—so you can choose the best solution among ... Read more

$23.09 USD

If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile services market, you need a quick-loading app that won’t churn through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression algorithms work—in theory and practice—so you can choose the best solution among
... Read more
Cloud Application Architectures

Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud

by George Reese ...

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications ... Read more

$17.29 USD

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications
... Read more

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